Sebelum aku mulai akun Instagram @funskincare, aku mulai menulis blog soal kesehatan kulit dan skincare di blog aku (funfunteatime.wordpress.com), saat itu aku lagi internship di rumah sakit di China. I started to gain more interest and knowledge about skin in general from practices in the hospital. I found that there are many more patients coming with sensitized skin which is caused by ‘abusing’ their skincare routine. Karena jaman sekarang itu product semakin banyak dan variatif dengan klaim yang nggak jarang “misleading” for people in general, orang-orang mulai bingung dan mau mencoba segala hal, without even knowing how they’re supposed to use it and whether it is suitable for their skin concern. Dari sana aku baru mulai merasa terpanggil untuk share pengetahuan aku soal kesehatan kulit, skincare, and how to use them “wisely”.

Lalu akun @funskincare sendiri itu baru aku buat sejak aku pindah ke Korea. Sejak aku pindah kesini, with all the accessibility to the beauty products (literally just a few second walk away from my house here), I can’t stand but to spend a “little” too much on products :p. I am those kind of people who like to keep the packaging but all of a sudden my tiny rooms turn into a garbage full jars and bottles of empty products. Karena sayang dibuang begitu aja (apalagi karena kemasannya lucu-lucu), I decided to take a picture of them and posted them on Instagram. And then I just realized that there are a lot of people out there who share the same interest and passion for skincare on Instagram from all around the world.

By all means, I can’t say that I am an expert (yet), I am still in the process of learning, aku sendiri juga belajar banyak selama mencari bahan untuk sharing. So I also take this as a motivation for me to never stop learning and share more information to everyone.

I like Korean skincare karena sebenernya dia generally lebih affordable dari Western brands with almost or not the same quality in my opinion. Of course there are some exceptions ya, untuk Western skincare brands mereka lebih banyak dan experiment more on actives (with even higher concentration), sementara di Korea cenderung more on the “safe” side dan cocok untuk skin concern-ku sekarang ini.

Iya, I was lucky enough to get to know meet her in person back in March this year. Aku contribute in Krave Beauty as a part of their research team. Aku sebagai seseorang dengan background medis (dermatology) jadi gabung untuk memberikan perspektif baru from the eye of a “physician” tentang apakah produk yang dikembangkan akan baik untuk kesehatan kulit customer. Jadi lebih fokus ke update ingredients-ingredients terbaru dan research if its’ possible to put them in the products and how it will benefit the customers. It’s not about making a ‘fancy’ formulation with the ‘fanciest’ ingredients, tapi lebih fokus ke bagaimana produk itu bisa “benefit” the user itself.

I rotate the products every now and then depending on my skin’s need. Terus aku juga penggemar banget wash-off maskso I like to put on wash off mask before I take a bath each night after I cleanse my face. Mungkin kedengerannya ribet banget ya, tapi aku enjoy banget and I really look forward to each “skincare session” every single day. So relaxing and relieve all the stresses from work!